428 
a bill into Congress appropriating $150,000 for 
the development and encouragement of silk 
culture in the United States. It creates a 
Division of Silk Culture in the Department of 
Agriculture and authorizes the establishment 
of experimental silk culture stations through¬ 
out the country. It provides for the free dis¬ 
tribution to farmers and others of mul¬ 
berry seed and silk-worm eggs.“They 
say” that every cow on the range has a calf 
this year, remarks the Montana Live Stock 
Journal.After June 10 live stock arriv¬ 
ing at Chicago are charged for at actual 
weight, instead of by the car-load . 
Up to the close of last week 1,361 car-loads of 
strawberries had been shipped over the Dela¬ 
ware Railroad and its branches. Averaging 
each car-load at 400 32-quart crates, it would 
show a total of 544,400 crates of strawberries, 
or 17,420,800 quarts. The crates will return on 
an average of $2.25 per crate clear of freight, 
commissions and cartage, thus showing that 
$1,250,000 have been divided between pickers 
and growers.The horses of Monroe and 
Pike Counties, New York, are badly afflicted 
with the glanders, and the veterinary surgeons 
are unable to master the disease. A large 
number of valuable animals have died and 
others have been killed. The prizes 
offered for the horse breeders’ classes, by the 
Buffalo International Fair Association, whose 
great fair will be held from Septemper 4 to 
14, amount to $13,450, and the herd premium 
for stallion with four of his get is $1,000 
There will also be speed premiums, but no 
pools will be sold on speed contests. 
Hon. Norman J. Colman, C. D. Colman, O. D. 
LaDow of the Department of Agriculture, 
and quite a number of editors of agricultural 
papers are on a tour through Minnesota, 
Idaho, Montana, etc,, and will not return for 
a week or two. Everywhere they are received 
with great enthusiasm. The Editor of the 
Rural had an invitation, also, but did not 
accept it. Alexander Macdonald, Edi¬ 
tor of the Mark Lane Express, will visit the 
United States during the ensuing autumn, in 
the interests of his paper, with a view of at¬ 
tending our great fairs and of giving his read¬ 
ers, who largely consist of breeders of live 
stock, the results of his personal inquiries and 
observations with regard to the conditions of 
the United States in pedigreed stock. 
Professor C. V. Riley, United States Entomol¬ 
ogist, says a brood of seventeen-year locusts 
is due for this year, and may be looked for in 
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa 
and in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. 
.. Nineteen persons were poisoned at Kalosa, 
Minn., from eating cheese manufactured in 
Wisconsin.The canal boatmen at New 
York are rejoicing over the signing of the 
McEvoy Elevator Act and claim that the ele¬ 
vator men can make money at the rate fixed 
by the new law. The elevator men at Buffalo 
by charging % cent per bushel for storage for 
each 10 days or parts thereof get more now 
than under the old rates. There has 
been a dispute between the Pennsylvania rail¬ 
road and a farmer at East Hickory, Pa., as to 
who should build a few rods of fence along 
the railroad. Monday the farmer’s cow went 
through the gap and was struck by a freight 
train. The train went off the track, causing 
$40,000 damage. The fence would have cost 
only $10.The Countess of Kingston has 
granted the tenants on her estate in Ireland a 
reduction of 20 per cent in rent.A 
match has been arranged for $2,500, July 4 
at Cleveland, between the great trotters 
Clingstone, 2:14, and Harry Wilkes, 2:13%.... 
....Up to June 2 the New York receipts of 
potatoes from Great Britain since October 1 
were 3,411,840 bushels against 2,106,047 bushels 
for the same period the previous year, in spite 
of the protective duty of 15 cents per 
bushel.Eight Scotch cattle com¬ 
panies report that they made $1,172,000 on 
their Western American cattle in 1883, at 
$23 12 per head, whereas in 1887 they lost $4,- 
690,000 at $17 per head. 
... .New Zealand butter and cheese are be¬ 
ginning to compete with American dairy pro¬ 
ducts in the English markets.Seven¬ 
teen-year locusts appeared in swarms Mon¬ 
day at Clinton, Iowa. Millions of grass¬ 
hoppers are hatching out in Otter Tail County, 
Minn. They are of the genuine Rocky Mount¬ 
ain varieties which did such great damage 
some years ago.Horses in Australia 
run without shoes. At times when the ground 
is very slippery they put on a plate. It is, 
however, considered that to run a horse with¬ 
out shoes is about seven pounds in the ani¬ 
mal’s favor.On May 26, 51 binders 
and mower's, besides a number of other farm 
implements, were delivered to farmers in the 
neighborhood of Manilla, Indiana. A pro¬ 
cession was formed, nearly a mile long and 
headed by three brass bands. Pour thousand 
people were on the ground when the delivery 
was made, and afterward dinner was served 
to the farmers and 500 invited guests. 
The members of the American Seed Trade 
Association, Chicago, spent most of their time 
Wednesday talking about the new postal 
treaty with Canada, whereby seeds sent from 
Canada are carried in the United States mails 
for 4 cents a pound, while the regular rate is 16 
cents a pound. This discrimination against 
their business, they claim, is hurting it seri¬ 
ously. A committee was appointed to 
act in the matter. Twelve miles from 
Parkersburg, W. Va., farmer Samuel Miller, 
aged 75, was gored to death by a savage bull, 
Tuesday. W bile riding on horse-back a red 
bandanna handkerchief flaunted out of his 
pocket, and the infuriated bull charged, over¬ 
turning the horse, and goring the old man to 
death,. 
New York has been pretty generous in her ap¬ 
propriations for agricultural and kindred pur¬ 
poses as shown by the following figures. The 
appropriations will be available after October 
1, 1888. 
For farmers’ institutes. . 
Building apparatus for State experiment sta¬ 
tion at Geneva. 
Agricultural museum and Fitch collection 
of insects. 
Printing extra reports. 
Commissioners of ilsheries, for expenses of 
mapping and surveying. 
Do. for priming, etc . 
State museum of natural history (including 
lapses from May, 18S5 to May, 1887.). 
Expenses of examining and holding examin¬ 
ations for applicants for state scholar¬ 
ships at Cornell University. 
State Entomologist (salary).. 
Official expenses of same. 
Arranging herbarium In natural history 
museum. 
Expenses of collecting specimens. 
State cabinet of natural history, for salaries 
of director and three assistants, in¬ 
crease and preservation of collection.. 
State agricultural si eiety premiums. 
Premiums for other societies. 
Regular expenses of state experiment sta¬ 
tions. 
Forest commission. 
Do, necessary expenses. 
State dairy commission. 
Replenishing lakes, etc., with fish. 
Compensation of game and fish protectors.. 
State dairymen’s association. 
$10,000.00 
8,000.00 
3,000.00 
3,175.25 
5,000.00 
2,000.00 
17,448.86 
300.00 
2,000.00 
300.00 
1'500 00 
200 00 
15,000.00 
10,000.00 
20,000.00 
20,000 00 
18.500.00 
11 500.00 
85.000.00 
30,000.00 
18,000 00 
2,500.00 
Total for agriculture.$283,424.11 
_The Scotch-American cattle companies, 
says the Pall Mall Gazette, appear to have 
done better in 1886 than in some preceding 
years. Not only is there no dividend for the 
ordinary shareholders, but with two excep¬ 
tions there are heavy debit balances. The 
combined paid-up capital exceeds £3,500,000 
(say, $17,500,000). 
The l 
following 
table 
shows 
the ballances for 
two years: 
Name 
1887 
1886 
Prairie. 
.. Dr. 
£4,991 
Cr. 
£5,247 
Texas. 
.. Dr. 
83,185 
Dr. 
82,238 
Matador. 
.. Cr. 
1,763 
Cr. 
8,934 
Hannold. 
.. Dr. 
82,367 
Dr. 
82,390 
Arkansas. 
.. Dr. 
75,698 
Dr. 
19,097 
Pastoral . 
.. Cr. 
1,880 
Dr. 
13,313 
Western.. 
.. Dr. 
, 17,354 
Cr. 
3,352 
Cattle Ranche .. 
. Dr 
. 68,029 
Dr. 
76,302 
Swan. 
. 
Dr. 
20,906 
Teachers during vacation, farmers’ sons 
when work is slack on the farm, and any 
others not fully and profitably employed, can 
learn something to their advantage by apply¬ 
ing to B. F. Johnson & Co., 1009 Main St., 
Richmond, Va.— Adv. 
Saturday, June 16, 1888. 
The week’s packing in the West has been 
215,000 hogs, compared with 205,000 the pre¬ 
ceding week, and 235,000 for corresponding 
time last year—making a total of 2,405,000 
since March 1, against 2,440,000 a year ago 
according to the Cincinnati Price Current. 
Prices of hogs have been rather more than 
usually variable, closing 10 to 15 cents per 100 
pounds lower than a week ago at most mar¬ 
kets, although at Cincinnati and Indianap¬ 
olis values are a little higher. 
The Mark Lane Express in its review of 
the British grain trade during the past week, 
says: Native wheats continue in free delivery 
in London, and values are 6d against sellers. 
The sales of English wheat during the past 
week were 37,939 quarters, at 31s 8d, against 
39,613 quarters, at 35s 4d during the corre¬ 
sponding week last year. Crop prospects are 
greatly improving under the fine weather. 
Foreign wheat is slow. Russians and Indians 
are cheaper. Corn is rather scarce and values 
are irregular. 
Condensations from this morning’s Brad- 
streets’: Flour is dull, having declined on the 
week about 10c. W heat declined on the week 
3^c. Corn declined on the week l%c. Oats 
have been irregular, but closed at the opening 
prices. Pork is steady. Lard is irregular and 
has declined four points. 
Rew wool is coming into the Eastern mar¬ 
kets to some extent, but with the exception of 
Texas product the movement is not yet very 
large. Buyers have been operating rather 
more freely in the Southwest, and the prevail¬ 
ing tone there is better. In Texas, as else¬ 
where, however, prices are still held too high 
to stimulate much activity. Most of the wool 
that has changed hands at San Antonio has 
gone at 15 to 16j^c.per pound. But little is 
doing as j et in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana 
or Michigan. Shearing is well under way in 
the more southern territories. There is some 
reason to believe that the mills will buy di¬ 
rectly in the West this year to a larger amount 
than usual 
Little business in wool is being done in 
Boston. Current quotations there are as fol¬ 
lows, in comparison with last year and the 
year before: 
June 18, June 17, June 15. 
1886. 1887. 1888. 
Ohio & Penn. X.3I®32 S2@33 28 
Ohio & Penn. XX.82@33 3S»84 2814(329 
Ohio & Penn XX and above.32®33 34(335 29@S0 
Michigan X.29@31 31@32 26(327 
Fine Ohio delaine.31@38 36(337 80@32 
No. 1 combing.34®S5 37(339 35 
Texas spring, 12 months....21@24 20@23 17@22 
Prof. Colbert of the Chicago Tribune, says: 
“The following is the process which seems to 
be the most rational to apply to the figures 
furnished by Statistician Dodge: Winter- 
wheat crop of last year, 292,830,000 bushels, 
to be multiplied into 73.3 per cent, for addi¬ 
tion and into 92.8 per cent, for diminished 
acreage. Then divide the product by 83.5 per 
cent., that being the reported condition of 
winter-wheat at the time of the last harvest. 
The result is 238,000,000 bushels of winter- 
wheat. Subtract one per cent, from the 163,- 
000,000 bushels of spring-wheat raised last 
year and the result is 147,000,000 bushels, after 
allowing for deceased acreage with no change 
from the average condition of a year ago. 
The total of the two is about 385,000,000 bush¬ 
els for the wheat crop of this year, as now 
indicated.” 
LATEST MARKETS. 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS. 
New York, Saturday, June 16, 1888. 
NEW YORK MARKETS. 
Cotton.—T he quotations, according to the American 
classification, are as follows: 
New Orleans. 
Uplands. and Gulf. Texas. 
Ordinary.7% 7)4 . 
Strict Ordinary. 1% 8 . 
Good Ordinary.8 13-16 8 15-16 . 
Strict Good Ordinary.. 9 5-16 9 7-16 . 
Low Middling. 9 11-16 9 13 16 . 
Strict Low Middling... 9 15-16 10 1-16 . 
Middling.10 )4 10)4 . 
Good Middling.10 7-16 10 9-16 . 
Strict Good Middling..10 11-16 10 13-16 . 
Middling Fair.11 1-16 11 3-16 . 
Fair.11 11-16 11 13-16 . 
STAINED. 
Good Ordinary.7 5-16 I Low Middling 
StrictGoodOrd.8 | Middling. 
8 15-16 
Western—Imitation creamery, best, 17@18c; do, fine, 
15)4®16)4c; Western dairy, fine, 16)4e; do. fair, IS® 
16c: do do poor, 14®14)43c; do, factory, best, 15)4® 
165c; do good, 15c do, poor, 13@14)4c. 
Cheese.— New factory, fancy, white. 8)4c; do do. 
colored. 8)4c; do fair and good, 714 to 8c do skims, 
light, 6)4 to 7c; do skims 2 to 4c; Pennsylvania skims, 
1 to l)4c; Ohio flat, fine, 8@8)4c; do do, good, A 4 @i%c. 
Egos.—N ear-by, fresh, 17(317)40; Canadian do, per 
doz. ®16*S4@17c; Western, loss off, 16^(317c. 
Boston.— Butter.—Choice grades are in fair demand, 
and prices well sustained; western creamery extras 
firsts, 2()c: firsts, 17(318: northern extra, 20®21c; extra 
firsts, 20c, firsts, 19c; Vermont dairy extras. 13@19c. 
Cheese.—New factory extras, 8 <S 8 ) 4 c per lb; firsts, 7@ 
7*4c; seconds. 6(3 6 ) 4 c: part skims, 4(«.6c; full skims, 2@ 
4c; sage, 9c; Ohio flats 8c. Eggs.— Prices firm, nearby, 
17c; Eastern extras. 16c; firsts, 15®l5)4c; Vermont eggs, 
16c; Canada firsts, 15@15)4c; vvestern, 15®15)4C. 
Phit.adklphia, Pa.- Butter.— Firm, creamery, 14® 
17c; dairy, I2@14c. Eggs—At 12c, 
Chicago, Ill —Butter.—C reamery, 15)4®19e, dairy 
13)4(<il7c. Eggs.—F irm at 13)4® 14c. 
GRAIN MARKETS. 
New York.—Wheat.—No. 2 Chicago, 87)£c insiore; 
No. 1 Hard quoted at aOMMlc; Ungraded Red at 85 %<& 
9574c; No. 2 red quoted nominal at 91)t®9ljl4c in store 
and elevator, 92*4®93c)4c afloat and delivered, 3 
92c. f. o. b.; No. 2 9l*4c; do tor August, 92®92)4c. do 
for September 92)4®92jJ4c; do for December, 95)4® 
95J4c; do May, 39**c®$l (0)6. Corn.— Ungraded Mixed, 
55J4'359c; steamer, 57)4®57>4 elevator; No. 2., 53)4c in 
in elevator; 5s^4@59c delivered. No. 2 June, 58)4®53)4c; 
do for July, 59®59)4c; do for August, 6U.«,66.%c. do for 
September, 60*>4(a6lc; do for October, 6u*4®6lc. Oats. 
—No. 3 37c; do white, 42c; No. 2 37J4@3c%e; do white, 
43®48)£c. No. 1 white 47c; Mixed Western, 36®4ue; 
white do 42ta.48c; No. 2 June 374fcc; do July 37 : >4®o;il4c; 
do August. 3344®33 13 16c, do September, 33c; do white, 
June, 4<Js@42)tc; do July 41$4®42)4c. 
Buffalo, N. Y.—Wheat.—No. 1 Hard 5)4c over 
Chicago August; No. 1 Northern, 3)4c. over Chicago 
August; No 2 Northern, l)4c. over; Winter wheat—No. 
2 red 94@94)4e; Choice No. 2 red, at 95®95)4c, No. 1 
White Michigan 93 <493J4c. Corn—No. 2 yellow 57c; 
No. 3 yellow 55®55)4c; No, 3 5344c. Oats.—Higher; No. 
2 white, 4144@42c; No. 2 mixed 5644c. 
Chicago, Ills.—No, 2 spring wheat at88J^@8344c; No 
3 do nominal; No. 2 red 8444 c; No. 2 corn, S2)4c. 
No. 2 oats. 3j)4c; No. 2 Rye, 58c; no. 2 Barley, 65®6ic. 
ST. Louis, Mo.—Wheat—No. 2 Red Cash, 88 c; do 
June, 87)4c; do July, 83)4®84)4c; do August, 84>^3,8l4gc; 
do Seotember, 85)4c; do December 88 * 44 . 88740 . corn— 
48®48J4c; July, 4 » 4 kc<t 4844 c; August, 43J4 ®i9*4c; year 
39@894fcc. Oats—Cash 82c; June 32c; July 23%c. 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 
hay and Straw.— In a small way there is a fair 
business passing from day to day. Hav—Choice Tim¬ 
othy per luo lb, 93c@Sl: No. 1 do 90®95c: No 2 do, 75@ 
80c; Clover, mixed 70®85c; clover 55®65c; shipping. 65 
@70e. Straw.- Long rye $1 U5@$l 10; short do, 75c; 
oat, 45®50c. 
Hops.— The demand is fair for actual requirements, 
but no disposition Is shown to deal In larger lots. N. 
Y. State crop of 1887. best, 12@18c, do medium, 
10®llc; do common. 9(310e, do State old 4®6c; Pa¬ 
cific Coast, crop of 1887, 8 @llc; do 1886,8@6e. Germans, 
crop of 1887,16i@2l)c. 
Beans.— Marrows, $2 80, medium, choice $2 5(1; pea 
$2 80@2 85; red kidneys, *2 60; white kidneys, 
choice, *2 10@2 15; foreign, mediums, $1 65@2 10; do 
small, $2 20; California Lima, $2 90; green peas, new, 
$2 00 . 
Poultry.—Live,— Fowls, near-by, per lb, 10@10)4c; 
fowls, Western, per n>, 10@l0)4c roosters, per n>, 
6 ® 6 c; turkeys, per n> 7® 10c, ducks, western, per 
pair, 40@60o; geese, western, per pair, 80c@l 00; 
chickens; spring, per lb, 16®25c. 
Poultry.—Dressed,— Turkeys, per B>, 6(310c; Fowls, 
Philadelphia, lltol'.’c; do western, 8 @llc: squabs, 
white, per doz, $3 25(38 50; do dark, per doz, *2®2 25; 
chickens, Philadelphia spring, 30®36c; do Baltimore 
do 22(325c; do western do, 22@28c; ducks, spring, per 
lb, 20@22c; do, 5®l0c. 
Game.—G olden plover, per doz, $1 25®1 50; grass do, 
75c@$l; snipe, small, 40e®l 75. . 
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE MARKETS. 
Fruits. —Fresh.— Apples.—Russet, per bbl $2 50® 
3 50; strawberries, Jersey, per qt. 6®13c; do Mary¬ 
land, per quart, 5® 12c do. Sharpless, 7®14c; huckle¬ 
berries per quart 8 ® 10 c; gooseborries per quart, 5a 6 c; 
Peaches, per crate, 75@4 00; cherries, per lb, 4® 15c; 
watermelons, per 100, $18@30. 
Fruits DRiKD-Applcs.—Evaporated,Choice to fancy 
7@8J4e; do common to prime, evaporated 5*4®644c; 
do sliced, new, 5 t 4 ( 37 c; do chopped, 274 ® 244 c; do cores 
and skins, —@lc; Cherries-pitted, 17®2lc; Raspber 
ries—evaporated, new, 25®27c; do sun-dried, 24@ 
26c; Blackberries, 744c; Huckleberries, 9®10c. 
Nuts.—P eanuts are unchanged. Fancy hand picked 
quoted at 446®4J4c and farmers’ grades ut3®3)4c. 
Vegetables.— Potatoes.- Old, per bbl. 75c®*2 00; old, 
per sack. 80c@$l 85; Savannah, per bbl, 8350 to 4:0; 
Charleston, new, per bbl, $3 50®4 50; Onions, Bermuda, 
per crate. $1 75®2. do New Orleans, per bbl 3 25; 
do Egyptian, per case, $2 00. Cabbages, Norfolk, per 
bbl. $1 50; do North Carolina, per bbl. *1 50; 
string beans, Norfolk, per crate, $3@4; North Carolina, 
per crate, $1®3 50; tomatoes, per crate 75e'3,$2 50; aspa¬ 
ragus, per doz bunches, *1 25 3 2 25; do common, do V. c 
(3*1; Pease green, per bbl. *1 50(32 50; do do per crate, 
5037 c. Squash, per crate, 50 to 75c; cucumbers per 
crate 75c®$l 75 
Boston.— Dandelions, 35c per bush; egg plant, $1®2 
per doz. garlic, lc; horse radish. l()c per lb; cress, 40c. 
per doz: cucumbers, 5®6c each, carrots. *1 per bush: 
new. 75c per doz. bunches, cauliflower, $1<«2 per doz; 
cabbage, *1 50®2 00 per bbl; cabbage greens 50c per 
bbl; Beets, SI per bush; do, new, $1 50 per doz bunch¬ 
es; string beans, S2i32 50 per crate, asparagus, SI per 
doz; artichokes, $1 50 per bu, leek, 75c per doz; lettuce, 
15®25c: mushrooms, $1 per lb; green peas. 75c per pk; 
parsley $2 per bu; radish 25c per doz; rhubarb, lc per 
lb. sorrel 75c per pg; spinach 15c per bu, squash, 
$2 50 per cwt; Florida, tomatoes, $1 (32 per crate; 
hot house do, 50c per lb; turnips, 25®40c per doz 
bunches. Bermuda onions, $1 75 per crate. Pota¬ 
toes—North Carolina new are in at $3 50@4 per bbl; 
other Southern rauge at $1®3. At New York, old 
stock weak at *1 75 *2 per bbl for natives Nova Scotia, 
$1 75C32; Scotch, $1®1 ,5, new potatoes in lighter de¬ 
mand; Bermudas, $4@5 per bbl; southern, $1@8 75. 
Fresh Fruits.—Blueberries, 7(39e per qt; gooseberries, 
$ 2,32 50 per bu; strawberries, 7@16e per quart; peaches, 
$3 50 perorate: California plums, $3 50, a few apples 
hold at $2®4 per bbl. 
PROVISION MARKETS. 
New York.—Provisions.—Pork. One-year old Mess, 
$14 00 to 14 50; New mess, 15 25®15 50. short clear, 
$16®18, Extra Prime mess, $13 25: prime do, $15@ 
15 50; and family mess, $15 50(316 50. Beef— City 
Extra India Jiess. in tierces, *12 50®16 00; Extra 
Mess, in barrels $7(37 50; Packet, $ 8 @ 8 50: per bbl, 
and $ll@ll 50 In tierces, Plate, 87 25®7 50.; Family at 
$9 50. Beef HAjis.-Quoted at 815 50(316 here aud at 
at the West $15. Cut Meats. - Pickled Bellies 12 lb 
average. 7 5-8c, quoted 12 ih average bel les, 7 5-8c; 10 lb 
,44cco7%c; Pickled Hams, ll^a.n^c; pickled Shoulders 
7c. Smoked shoulders at 744®«e; do Hams at 12c. 
Dressed Hogs.—City heavy to light, 74* to 7 9 15e: pigs, 
79£c. Lard. City steam, 8.15e; refined quoted 8 50c; 
Continent, 9.75c: So American June, 8 69^ 8 70c; July. 
8.72c; August, 8.73c; September 8.77e; October, 8.76c. 
Philadelphia, Pa.— Provisions.—Pork.— At $14 40. 
Lard.— At $8 12 * 4 . Dry salt meats, boxed—shoulders 
$ 6 ; long clears, $7 62*4: clear ribs, 87 62)4@7 75; short 
clears, $7 87)$®8. Bacon, bozed—shoulders, $6 62)4® 
6 75, long clears, $8 40®8 45; clear ribs, $8 40(38 45; short 
clears, *8 6 u @8 70. Hams—At $10 75® 11. 
Chicago.—Mess Pork.—$ 18 70 per bbl. Lard.—A t 
$8 47*4 Per 100 lbs. Short Rib sides (loose), 87 50; dry 
salted shoulders, boxed, $6 00®6 25; short clear sides, 
boxed $3 ®8 05. 
DAIRY AND EGG MARKETS. 
New York.—Butter— Creamery.-State, best, 20)4 
®21c; Western, best, 20®21)4e; do prime, 19®19)4c; 
do good, 17)4 to I8J4c; do poor. 16®17 c, State dairy 
—Half-firklus, tubs, prime, 19®20c; do, do, fine, 
17@18c; Welsh tubs, fine, 13)4@19c; do good, 17@18c; 
New York, Saturday, Juno 16, 1838. 
Beeves.—C orn-fed Chicago steers. 1456 lb at $6 40 per 
100 lb; do, 1380 1b at $6 25; do 1231 lb at $5 90; do 1178 
lb at 85 80; do 1229 lb at $5 i5; do 1 45 lb at $5 70; do 
1128 lb at $5 45. do 1163 lb at $5 40, do 1105 lb at $5 35; 
Ohio do 1107 lb at $5 10; do 1360 lb, at $5 15; Lancaster 
County, Pennsylvania Steers, 1313 lb at $5 75; do 1180 
lb at *5 65; Pennsylvania '‘Stockers,” 884 to at $4 4U; 
Indiana grass fed, 102u tb, at $4 85; do 937 lb at $4 65; 
do (poor), 992 lb at *4 40; Stags, 1235 lb, at $4 60; still 
Bulls, 1685 tb at $4 75; do 1616 lb at $4 37 ) 4 - do 1490 lb 
at $5 12)4; Pennsylvania Cows and Bulls, 933 lb at *3 25; 
Texans, 846 lb at $1 10; do, 838 lb, at $4 65, do, 1013 lb, 
at $5 10; do 1021 lb at $5 15; do 994 lb at $5 15; (lo 838 
lb, at *4 60; Indiana Grassers, (poor), 1013 lb, at $4 40; 
do 1060 lb, at $5 00; Ohio steers 9U lb, at $4 75, do, 1213 
lb, at $4 80; do. 1030 lb, at $1 90; do, 1116 lb, at $5 25; 
Chicago do, 1114 n>, at $ 535 , do, 1233 lb, at $5 60; do, 
1244 lb, at $5 80; Lancaster County, Peuo. do, 1134 lb, 
at $6 45; do, 1246 lb at 86 20; l ulls, 950@1220 lb, at $3 00® 
8 5u; Illinois ‘‘Stillers,” 1336 lb average, at *6 50 per 100 
lb, less $10. do, 1286 lb, at $6 25, Kansas steers, 1114 lb, 
at $5 90. do, 1147 lb, at $5 90; do, 1 186 lb. at $5 90; starch- 
factory-fed do. 1333 lb, at $6 20; do, 1167 lb, at $6 10. do, 
1237 lb, at $6 07)4; do. 1319 lb, at $6 00; uo, .070 1b, at 
$5 35; Kentucky Steers, 1260 lb average at $6 00 per 100 
lbs; Lancaster County, Penn., Steers, 1344 lb, at $6 20; 
do, 10?u tt>, at *5 25; Western do, 1036 lb, at $5 05, do, 
H73 lb, at *5 45, steers and heifers, 925 a>, at $4 85; State 
oxen, 1415 lb, at $4 90, dry cows, 985 lb, at $3 75': do, 1027 
lb, at $3 30; Pennsylvania do, 915 lb, at $4; bulls, 1030 
lb, at $3 30; Ohio steers, 1255 lb at $5 80; Laueaster 
County, Penn., do, 12U0 a at $5 75; do, 1136 lb at $5 80; 
do, 1318 lb,.at 86 ; oxen, 1700 lb. at $4 60; dry cows and 
bulls, 900® 1050 lb, at $3 25®8 50; Kansas steers, 1295 lb, 
at $6 10; Lancaster County steers, 1388 lb, at $6 25: do, 
llo2 lb, at $5 SO, less $10; do, 1300 lb, at $5 75, do, ;279 lb, 
at $5 40. do, 1052 lb at $5 25, Pennsylvania oxen, 1492 
lb, at $4 65; Pittsburg “still” bulls, U6?®1214 lb, $3 35; 
Coloi'ado steers, 1285 lb, at $5 15; native Western do, 
1243 lb, at $5 70; do, 1031 lb, at s.5. 
Calves.— Buttermilk calves, 115 lb at $3 40; do 138 lb 
at $3 75; do 148 lb at $4; Veals, 151.1b at 86 50; Butter¬ 
milk calves 152 1b at $3 87)4; Veals, 136 lb at $6 25; do, 
140 lb at $6 50: veals 189 lb at 6^40 per lb; do, 142 lb, at 
6) 4c; do, 150 lb at 6)4c per lb. 
sheep and Lambs.— Virginia ewes, 102 lb at 4c per lb; 
Ohio Sheep, 87 lb at 5)4e; Virginia lambs, 65 lb at 7)4c; 
Ohio sheep, 84)4 lo at 5c per lb; Virginia lambs, 61)4 
lb at7%c. uo 61 lb, at 8c; Territorial isheep, 1 j 3 lb at 
4)4c per lb; Kentucky lumbs, 55)4 tb at 644 c; Virginia 
lambs 57 lb average, at 7 *40 per lb; West Virginia 
ewes, 86 lb, at 4c per lb; West Virginia lambs, 62 tb, at 
7) 4e. do 621b at 7)»c; Western sheep 88 ib at 5)4c: Ken¬ 
tucky Lambs, 71)4 lb at 8 c; Territory sheep, 85 lb, at 
$4 55 per 100 lb; Western sheep, 87 lb at 5o per lb. 
Hogs.— None for sale alive. Nominal quotations, 
$5 70ts5 90 for fair to good hogs. 
Buffalo.-Cattle— Prices advanced 10® 15c. since 
last Monday. Good to Choice shipping, *4 85®5 25; 
Extra Cattle, $5 75®6. Shkei\— Market dull aud lower. 
Medium to Good $4 25®5 75; extra so; no lambs 
here. Hogs.— Mixed Pigs and light Yorkers *5 45®5 55; 
Light Pigs, $5 10 to 5 85; selected, Yorkers, $5 60® 
5 70; selected medium weights *5 80. 
Chicago.—Cattle.— Market lower. Natives $4 to 
4 69; Cows aud mixed, $2 to 3 90: Stockers aud feeders, 
$2 50 ®4 20; Texans, steers, $2 75®4 35. Hogs —Mixed 
$5 45®5 65; Heavy, $5 55®5 75, Llgh t, $5 40®5 55. Pigs and 
culls, $4 10®5 20. Sheep.— Market slow. weak. Na¬ 
tive muttons,, S3 90@5; Texas muttons. $3 50®4; Stock¬ 
ers, $2®3; Western feeders, $3®3 30; lambs, $2® 4 per 
head. 
St. Louis, Mo.—Cattle.- Choice heavy native steers 
$5 50®6 30; Fair to good native steers $5 ®5 60, Butch¬ 
ers’ steers- medium to choice, $4 1U®5 25; stockers and 
feeders, fair to good; $2 40 to 3 75; rangeis, ordinary 
to good, *2 50 to 4 40. Hogs.— Market steady; cnoiee 
Heavy and butchers’selections, 85 55 u;5 65; packing, 
medium to prime, $5 35®5 55, light grades ordinary to 
best $5 25 to 5 50. Sheep.—Market strong. Fair to 
choice, $3 GO to 5 10. 
Communications Received for the Week Ending 
June 16, 1888. 
L. C. C.—A. H. P.—A farmer’s daughter—A C. C.—J. 
E. W.—L. D. J.—G. F. B—C. A. Y.—E. S. A.—R.T.-T. C. 
R. —H.W.A.—W. P. B.-M. A. H.-G. W.—A.H. G.-B. F. 
A.-P. M. H.-W. K.—thanks-D. B.-W. D. H.-M. R — 
E. W. S.—W. K.-E. W. S.-A- S. K.-J. C. A.-J. A. F.— 
thank you-D. B. C.-R. B.—H. H.-A. L. J.-F. J. H.— 
A. B. H.—T. H. Y.-C. S. P.-E. A. B.-H. S. B.-G. W r . 
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W. J.-M, B.-H. A. W.-J. McL-VV. P. Carter, thanK 
you-G. T.-C. W. B.—J. K.-W. S. M.-J. C. G.-Mrs. U. 
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